Quotes About Potential

I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted, and black…I, for one, can think of no more dynamic combination that a person might be. . . And that is why I say to you that, though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic—to be young, gifted, and black.

You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.

Fire, man's first and faithful friend, and ever a potential enemy.

You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

I could have been a great many things.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor

nothing seemed impossible in the beginning…

swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You're ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent.

Talent isn't genius.

talent isn't genius and you can't make it so

You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead and ordinary life?

She saw qualities in him still invisible to the world at large.

he is coming into the office to see if he is fit to go into the firm later on, which I hope and trust he will be.

This was the great paradox of his career: his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself.

The world lies all before us.

Do you think it is sad for people to struggle their entire working life just to get by, only to retire into guaranteed poverty? I know I do. And the reason I feel this way is because we all have so much potential to do better.

Growing into leadership begins with self-leadership—which starts with discovering and nurturing the inner drive that will spur you to seemingly impossible achievements. That drive may be moving toward your passion, if you're lucky enough to know